The first album Forgetter Blues was released with Lucias Fitzsimons’
guitarist/organist and longtime bandmate Ryan Foster in early 2013
on his own label—named after a slightly infamous intersection in their
then-home of Long Beach—and was twelve songs of anxious garagey
proto-punk-y folk-y rock, Modern Lovers demos and Velvet
Underground arcana as fuel and foundation both. It deserved to go
farther than it did, which sadly wasn’t very far. But it sharpened
Fitzsimons and his songwriting, and after three pent-up years of
creativity, he was ready to burst. So he decided to record a new album
in the spirit of the first, and in the spirit of everything that the Molochs
made so far.

The result is America’s Velvet Glory, recorded with engineer Jonny
Bell at effortless (says Fitzsimons) sessions at Long Beach’s JazzCats
studio. (Also incubator for Molochs’ new labelmates Wall of Death and
Hanni El Khatib.) It starts with an anxious electric minor-key melody
and ends on a last lonesome unresolved organ riff, and in between
comes beauty, doubt, loss, hate and even a moments or two of peace.
There are flashes of 60s garage rock—like the Sunset Strip ’66
stormer “No More Cryin’” or the “Little Black Egg”-style heartwarmerslash-
breaker “The One I Love”—but like one of Foster’s and
Fitzsimons’ favorites the Jacobites, the Molochs are taking the past
apart, not trying to recreate it.

Tracklist:
1. Ten Thousand
2. No Control
3. Charlie’s Lips
4. That's The Trouble With You
5. The One I Love
6. Little Stars
7. No More Cryin
8. You And Me
9. New York
10. I Don't Love You
11. You Never Learn